The Obon Festival will take place on Friday, August 16 at 6 p.m. People will be able to release lanterns to commemorate their ...

The Obon is a Buddhist ritual to celebrate and honor the ancestors. The festival has become an island tradition enjoyed by many different ethnic groups. The Obon is a Buddhist ritual to celebrate ...

This festival includes the lighting of bonfires and lanterns to light the way for the spirits. As with other countries, the Japanese celebration, known as the Obon Festival, honors their dead ...

The Obon Festival will be August 16, from 6 – 9 p.m. in the Sasebo Japanese Garden at the Albuquerque BioPark. Guests will have a chance to enjoy Japanese refreshments, cuisine, make their own ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...

Today is the last of the four-day Obon festival honoring ancestral spirits. Kanematsu gathered papery bright orange-colored bell-shaped husks to display for the occasion. Peggy Pilkey recalled ...

Citing "business conditions," Daikin America's Alabama plant has canceled this year's Daikin Festival in Decatur. The Japan-based company, which has a plant in Decatur, made the announcement Friday ...

Kula Shofukuji Mission holds a bon dance in 2019, prior to the two-year hiatus of Obon due to COVID-19. Some Maui Buddhist temples are aiming to bring back the popular events this year, which ...

For more than 700 years, the residents of Nishimonai in Akita Prefecture have welcomed their ancestral spirits home for the annual Obon festival through a Bon Odori.These dances are held across ...